Abstract: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals for human civilization necessitates the transformation of energy systems, ecosystem management, agriculture and land use, urban management, materials use, and other areas into an innovative, environmentally safe path. Such transformations require, on the one hand, large crossborder financial and investment resources and international and local political commitments, and on the other hand, they require great demands from science to develop innovative ecologically adequate tools and methodologies for their implementation, collection of relevant data and mechanisms monitoring to link planetary boundaries with national sustainable development goals, develop innovative solutions, and map out integrated ways to achieve the goals, taking into account trade-offs and synergies between the goals and objectives of ecologically sustainable development.

Global problems of environmental sustainability of the living space on the planet are closely interrelated with corporate activities and investment tools to support ecology and minimize environmental risks, but are often studied and solved separately, which is argued by the authors of the article on the example of China. System integration is critical to understanding socio-economic and environmental interrelationships and creating sustainable solutions.

The authors, based on the identification and characteristics of holistic approaches to the integration of various components of connected human and natural systems, outline the dominant priorities of China in financing programs of ecological sustainable development within the framework of the One Belt Initiative. One Way» and «Green Silk Road».